Category: International Festivals

Traveling to the UK after being chosen to headline the New Blood Stage at Bloodstock Festival on Sunday 13th August, Lebanese Metal Thrashers Blaakyum will take their unique blend of Thrash, Heavy, and Groove Metal infused with Middle Eastern and Levantine folk music vibes to London. Blaakyum Pre Bloodstock Show will take place at The Dev in Camden Town, a venue that is well known for its support to the underground music scene.

Three bands will be opening for Blaakyum at this event at The Dev. And here’s where we got surprised. It caught our attention that alongside Caskets and Endeavour, Element 26’s Guitarist and founding member Alexy Khoury‘s newest band, “GODD” will be opening for the Lebanese Thrashers, which is pretty cool!
Also, it is important to note that Endeavour‘s guitarist IAN is also Onslaught.

Blaakyum Pre Bloodstock Show At The Rev UK

BLAAKYUM

GODD

ENDEAVOUR

For the second year in a row, Britain’s biggest Rock and Metal festival, DOWNLOAD, returns to Paris. This is great news for all Metal and Rock lovers in France and Paris. This year, DOWNLOAD Paris 2017 will take place at the air base 217 of Brétigny-sur-Orge / Le Plessis – Pâté on Friday 9, Saturday 10, and Sunday 11 June with an exceptional line up.Continue reading

Europe is the home of Rock and Metal festivals. Every summer, the continent gets crowded with Rock and Metal festivals, welcoming bands from all around the globe to celebrate music. Even though, HellFest always stands out among all of them, and it has become one of the best known festivals on Earth. Each year, the organizers do a “hell” of a job in getting an epic line up. This year, HELLFEST 2017 has about 160 bands that will grace 6 stages: Mainstage 1, Mainstage 2, Altar, Temple, Valley, and Warzone.

One of the pioneers of modern Hard Rock and Heavy Metal, “DEEP PURPLE”, who are on their extended farewell tour dubbed “The Long Goodbye”, will crown the Main Stage on June 16. So if you are a DEEP PURPLE fan, try not to miss them because you might not have another chance to watch them live again. Also, legendary AEROSMITH are on their final tour, and will be playing on the same stage the very next day. SLAYER, FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH, ALTER BRIDGE, ROB ZOMBIE, OPETH, and up to a total of 160 bands, the 3 camping days couldn’t get any better. (Check out the full line up below).

The festival guarantees a wide selection of style, covering most of the sub-genres, making it hard for any music lover not to enjoy the 3-day Rock and Metal Camp. Each stage has a certain direction:

Summer Breeze Open Airis a German heavy metal music festival. It takes place annually in Dinkelsbühl, Bavaria. It was first held in 1997. The festival had been held in Abtsgmünd until 2006 when it was moved to its new location of Dinkelsbühl. The festival draws around 40,000 attendees annually.

While this year SUMMER BREEZE 2016 is celebrating its 19th installment, the festival will be 4 days of exceptional Metal Breeze in Dinkelsbühl, Germany, from August 17th to 20th, 2016.

This year’s LINEUP is brutal with more than 125 bands, headlined by one of Thrash’s Big 4: SLAYER. The thrashers are supported by:

SUMMER BREEZE – Dinkelsbühl, Bavaria 2016 LINEUP

After we covered last year’s M’era Luna in Germany >here<, this year, we are planning to pay the concert a visit as well.

M’era Luna is an industrial, metal, and goth music festival, which takes place on the second weekend of August in Hildesheim near Hanover.

This year’s M’era Luna will take place on the 13thand 14th of August 2016. Tickets are getting sold very fast, flights and hotels have been booked, and the lineup is more familiar to me this year. “Diary of Dreams” is on the top of the list of bands I want to see, then come “Apocalyptica”, “Lacrimas Profundere”, “Lacrimosa”, and “Within Temptation”.

This year as well, M’era Luna are not forgetting to conserve the environment with a great initiative that is explained in details >here<

Awesome news revealed on May 12 after some teasing from Ozzy Osbourne and Slipknot. A one-time only, two-day festival called Ozzfest Meets Knotfest was announced and was followed by a massive press conference with Sharon Osbourne introducing the bands.

Ozzfest will be on Sept. 24 and Knotfest on Sept. 25 in San Bernardino, Calif. at the San Manuel Amphitheater and Festival Grounds where Ozzfest made its debut 20 years ago. Continue reading